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1934: The first political assassination captured on film, by Fox Movietone cameramen, was that of King Alexander I of Yugoslavia, on a visit to Marseilles.

1937: 'Oh, the humanity!' At Lakehurst, New Jersey, the explosion of the Hindenburg was recorded by many newsreel companies, with WLS reporter Herbert Morrison's terrible, tearful commentary becoming historic.

1941: Bombardment of Tripoli - Filmed from a Royal Navy fleet on Mediterranean, this includes a close-up of a soldier writing in chalk on bomb: "This'll make you whistle" and night shots of shells exploding.

1944: Paris Under the Crooked Cross, a British Movietone film, shows Paris under the Nazis, filmed by a man who hid a camera in his bicycle basket.

1945: Liberation of Bergen-Belsen. The five newsreel producers (Pathé, Gaumont-British, British Movietone, British Paramount, Universal Talking News) made the independent decision to devote an entire issue to footage taken shortly after the liberation.